Events, Exhibitions & Campaigns

In addition to forwarding important news to the media and public via press releases, press photos and video footage, ESO occasionally organises special and press events. Examples of these events are the Open House Days, meetings to exchange information and to strengthen relations between ESO and its industrial partners, and press events to provide information about important technical and scientific developments. Information about upcoming and past events can be found in the corresponding pages, Press Events and Special Events.

News and events related to ESO's educational programmes are released by the ESO Educational Office, which offers support to astronomy and astrophysics education, especially at the high-school level. This includes the provision of some teaching materials, courses for teachers and specific educational projects.

Some examples of recent events, exhibitions and campaigns follow.

Café & Kosmos in Munich, Germany — A joint initiative between ESO, the Excellence Cluster, and the Max-Planck Institutes for Physics, Astrophysics, and Extraterrestrial Physics, Café & Kosmos aims to bring researchers and non-scientists together, and to do so where people live: in the centre of the city of Munich, and in a pub, a place where communication traditionally takes place.

The Eye 3D — In close cooperation with ESO as part of its International Year of Astronomy 2009 activities, the production companies parallax raumprojektion and fact&film produced a unique 3D documentary about the most powerful visible-light telescope in the world, ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). (http://www.eso.org/public/events/special-evt/theeye.html)